Diary Entry - 18th September, 1916

Monday, it was pouring with rain when we climbed out of our dug outs in the morning and everything was very sloppy. In the morning, Siggers and I knocked up a frame to take some maps of the fighting in the south. In the afternoon, we painted the different contours so as to make the ridge stand out well and to show up how far we had advanced over the ridge the previous day with the new 'tanks' in cooperation. The map looks well, now it is finished, and hangs on the wall at one end of the Mess. The rain continued through the day and made a frightful bog of the surroundings.